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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Pharrell Williams has a Lego animated movie of his life called Piece by Piece coming out soon and no matter how many times I’m confronted with the reality of this it feels like someone’s doing an elaborate joke

https://bsky.app/profile/bethanyblack.bsky.social/post/3l3kp4se3nt2s

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Universal Pictures bought the rights to make Lego movies, but that didn't include the rights to any of the popular characters from The Lego Movie or its spin-offs. Those stayed with Warner Brothers (even though WB can no longer use Lego, so those characters are functionally dead).

Universal also didn't get the rights to any of the franchise characters typically associated with Lego, so they can't use Boba Fett, or Batman, or Gandalf, or Harry Potter, or even Jack Sparrow.

So they're sitting on this huge IP and have no way to actually use it. And so Pharrell comes along and says he wants to make a documentary about himself, and they say nah that's boring, nobody wants to see that. Then someone realizes they're going to lose the rights to Lego if they don't make a movie with them soon. And here we are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Heaven forbid they make new characters.